Return Literacy Analysis - synthesize my observations about literacy being social: what that might teach us about ourselves? how might that influence how we organize our classroom time and space? how might it help us to decide how we frame our curriculum?
Possible Themes and Ideas - What are you thinking of choosing and why?
Designing Course Description
Pick a grade level and course title
Describe purposes of the course and what it teaches students to do
Describe the course content (e.g. terms, principles, procedures covered throughout the course)
How might the theme and inquiry question you're considering be connected to the course description you're drafting?
For Thursday:
Blog Posting #2 Due
Read Of Mice and Men
October 1
Of Mice and Men and "Change"
WAGS in order to map the rhetorical context of Of Mice and Men
Time line of the five or six key moments / incidents in Of Mice and Men
Graph characters - hope, happiness, reliance on others/self-reliance, money
Notice, Name, Apply the changes in the characters in order to "read" Steinbeck - Analysis Cycle
Turning in Possible Themes/Questions for Unit and draft of Course Description
For next time:
TLA Chapter 10
Response to at least two blog posts by class
Initial Unit Goals memo that includes possible reading goals (what you might want your students to learn about reading) and learning goals (concepts related understanding Of Mice and Men and your chosen unit theme/question)
Hope is fragile.
Closer to the possiblity, the harder the fall.
CHange happens when hope is at extreme high or low.
Hope is directly related to your perception of your ability to control your future.
Return Literacy Analysis - synthesize my observations about literacy being social: what that might teach us about ourselves? how might that influence how we organize our classroom time and space? how might it help us to decide how we frame our curriculum?
Possible Themes and Ideas - What are you thinking of choosing and why?
Designing Course Description
How might the theme and inquiry question you're considering be connected to the course description you're drafting?
For Thursday:
Blog Posting #2 Due
Read Of Mice and Men
October 1
Of Mice and Men and "Change"
Notice, Name, Apply the changes in the characters in order to "read" Steinbeck - Analysis Cycle
Turning in Possible Themes/Questions for Unit and draft of Course Description
For next time:
TLA Chapter 10
Response to at least two blog posts by class
Initial Unit Goals memo that includes possible reading goals (what you might want your students to learn about reading) and learning goals (concepts related understanding Of Mice and Men and your chosen unit theme/question)
Hope is fragile.
Closer to the possiblity, the harder the fall.
CHange happens when hope is at extreme high or low.
Hope is directly related to your perception of your ability to control your future.